getAggregationMatrix

Function which converts the supplied regionmapping file to a transformation matrix which then can be used for aggregation with speed_aggregate.

Usage

getAggregationMatrix(rel, from=NULL, to=NULL)

Arguments

rel

file name of a region mapping (".csv" as file ending, ";" used as separator and with columns containing the region names) or a mapping matrix (matrix with region names in columns)

from

Name of the first column to be used (if not set the first or second column will be used)

to

Name of the second column to be used (if not set the second or third column will be used)

Value

A matrix nregions1 x nregions2 with 1s and 0s showing the mapping of countries to regions.

Author

Jan Philipp Dietrich

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
  x <- cbind(reg=c("REG1","REG2","REG2","REG3"),country=c("C1","C2","C3","C4")) 

  getAggregationMatrix(x)
  
  getAggregationMatrix(x,from="reg",to="reg")
} # }